• Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...

  • The Self-Guided Tour

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:30pm CDT This tour starts at HRPO and ends at your home! Three annual Self-Guided Tours will occur (with the others to follow in early November next year, and ...

  • Science Academy: “Spinoff Technology”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sometimes a device, substance or way of doing something created specifically for an internal goverment job migrates into the lives of everyday citizens. Cadets may have experienced them in the ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    CANCELLED. Sunset, 6:29pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights ...

  • Comet Lemmon Viewing

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Sunset, 6:25pm CDT A bright comet awaits! Weather permitting, viewing of Comet Lemmon will be attempted. Twilight Ends, 7:46pm CDT

  • Comet Lemmon Viewing

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Sunset, 6:24pm CDT A bright comet awaits! Weather permitting, viewing of Comet Lemmon will be attempted. Twilight Ends, 7:45pm CDT NOAA Forecast (Very Good): precipitation potential 0%, sky cover 34%, ...

  • Comet Lemmon Viewing

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Sunset, 6:23pm CDT A bright comet awaits! Weather permitting, viewing of Comet Lemmon will be attempted. Twilight Ends, 7:45pm CDT NOAA Forecast (Good): precipitation potential 0%, sky cover 50%, relative ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Spooky STEM”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This program offers advanced topics, activity extensions and all-new games and demonstrations to older youth. Certificates are earned and archived as well as modern experiments take place. There are also giveaways ...

  • Comet Lemmon Viewing

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    CANCELLED Sunset, 6:22pm CDT A bright comet awaits! Weather permitting, viewing of Comet Lemmon will be attempted. Twilight Ends, 7:44pm CDT NOAA Forecast (Poor): precipitation potential 24%, sky cover 63%, ...

  • Mercurian Elongation

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    NOAA has issued a Wind Advisory until 7pm. Periodically, Mercury reaches its greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest way for amateurs to ...

  • HRPO Costume Contest

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:25pm CDT A space study institution open to the public on the creepiest evening of the year? What better time to invite old-timers and newcomers to this second try ...